I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.

Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.

I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has qualities of the mythological, of an epic.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a bust so small that it could enter a matchbook, but so heavy that no one could lift it. That's what a good book should be.

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.